Our Board
President
Bernadette Griswold
Support Coordination Alliance Chair, Executive Director of Community Access Unlimited
Vice President
Patricia Carlesimo, M.A.
Executive Director, LADACIN Network
Secretary
Michele DelCorsano
President and CEO, Our House, Inc.
Treasurer
Rachel Herrington, M.Ed.
Executive Director, North Jersey Elks Developmental Disabilities Agency
Immediate Past President
Keith J. Kearney
Executive Director, UCP of Hudson County
At Large Member
Patricia Tekel, M.A.
Executive Director, The Cerebral Palsy League, Inc.
At Large Member
Laura Walsh
Executive Director, Children’s Center Programs
At Large Member
Nancy Hamstra
President and CEO, Matheny
At Large Member
Steve Setteducati
Chief Executive Officer, New Concepts for Living
At Large Member
David Bishop
President and CEO, Pillar Care Continuum
At Large Member
Steven Bayer
Executive Director, REM/Premier/Mentor
At Large Member
Joanna Kibel-Gagne, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President, New Jersey Mission, Goodwill NYNJ
At Large Member
Alicia McGrath
Chief Executive Officer, The Center for Family Support
At Large Member
Marc Sano
MAS Executive Director, Durand
At Large Member
Paul Ronollo, MSW, LSW
Executive Director, Advancing Opportunities
At Large Member
Christina Klimkowski
Director, ECLC of NJ Pride Day Programs
ABCD Staff
Executive Director
Catherine Cabriele Chin
Cathy has successfully advocated on behalf of providers and people affected by health and human services in the State of New Jersey for almost two decades. For the past five years, she worked closely with ABCD on Government Affairs focusing on everything from the state budget to legislation to issues impacting early intervention and support coordination. Through her work with Community Access, she made advocacy opportunities available to the self-advocacy group, New American Movement for People with Disabilities. She is a founding member of the Union County Non-Profit Coalition whose goal is to build capacity, collaborate and assure continuity in the Union County social service system.
Cathy received her Master of Arts degree from NYU and worked as a provider for people with mental illness, dementia, HIV/AIDS, Substance Use Disorder and PTSD. She is the author of “Reconstructing the Self with Drama and Creative Arts Therapies.”
Prior to this, Cathy co-founded the Perishable Theatre Company which brought theatre to people who could not access it on their own due to income, disability, age or institutionalization, and was a Union Representative for Actor’s Equity Association.
Cathy received her Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University.
Executive Administrative Assistant
Tricanne Wilson
Tricanne Wilson is an Executive Administrative Assistant with over 7 years of experience. Tricanne has been with Alliance for the Betterment of Citizens with Disabilities for over 3 years. Tricanne specializes in problem solving, bookkeeping, coordinating meetings, and scheduling calendar events. Tricanne has excellent communication skills and is responsible for the everyday operations of ABCD. Tricanne is a dynamite force in the workplace and uses her positive attitude and energy while explaining services and assisting individuals that may contact them for additional help. Tricanne works hard to maximize her efficiency as well as develop professional relationships within member organizations. Tricanne takes pride in representing ABCD and the population they service.
Director of Education, Training and Professional Development
Jeanne Ashmore
Jeanne Ashmore is the Founder and Principal Consultant of the DovMore Group leading a team with more than four decades of experience in legislative, policy and regulatory expertise.
Well versed in state and federal government, Ms. Ashmore spent more than 30 years in public service. In the New Jersey Legislature, she analyzed legislation and state budgets as well as crafted public policy; she then brought that wealth of state experience to the federal government when she served as District Director to Congressman Leonard Lance and then as the Deputy Chief Administrator at the NJ Motor Vehicle Commission. She has served in two Administrations, heading up the constituent, community, and inter-governmental affairs units.
Her detailed understanding and experience in legislative, regulatory and policy matters as well as crisis management benefits her clients at all levels.
Ms. Ashmore has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from The Catholic University of America and has served on boards and commissions throughout her tenure, including Chair of the Burlington County Library Commission, where she served for more than a decade. She lives in Crosswicks NJ with her husband and children.
Management Consultant to ABCD
K. David Holmes, MA, MA
K. David Holmes is the Founder and President/CEO of KDH Enterprises, LLC since its inception in 2004. In addition to his role in overseeing the management of the firm, he is the primary practitioner/consultant providing management solutions and supports to a targeted clientele–non-profit organizations and their constituencies, small to medium for-profit companies, hospitals, governmental entities, trade associations, private schools and school districts, and foundations. Specializing in “Strategic Planning,” Mr. Holmes has been instrumental in assisting many companies to envision, engage and execute at the highest level of competency in an effort to build and develop sustainable entities.
As an accomplished strategist, Mr. Holmes has spent most of the past sixteen years working with CEO’s and senior administrators in developing aerial perspectives of their organizations within their industry’s environment, while mapping succinct plans for program/business expansion, reconfiguring systems to improve efficiency, or developing retrenchment plans and managing risk to avoid exposure.
Prior to 2004, Mr. Holmes led and administered programs in both the non-profit industry and the Public Sector. Through his work he developed knowledge and expertise in all aspects of the human services spectrum of needs, supports and funding. He also developed a mastery and proficiency in managing large budgets, developing classical and/or human relations models for large workforces, program design/new product development, and the evaluation of programs, services and individuals.
Mr. Holmes served as an Adjunct Professor at Rider University where he taught Strategic Planning, Budgeting and Finance, Human Resource Management and several Leadership courses to aspiring graduate students for the past 20 years. Mr. Holmes has also earned a Certificate of Eligibility for School Principal in the State of New Jersey and has earned three graduate-level certificates in Advanced Governmental Affairs, Information and Data Systems, and Budgeting and Finance.
Mr. Holmes received a Masters of Arts in Human Services Administration and a Masters of Arts in Education Administration, both from Rider University. He also received his Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in 1980.
